I am just getting started with the "12 Week Year" (12WY) planning and execution system in MLO, after trying a bunch of other things over the years in MLO. Anyone have experiences to report using MLO to support a 12WY approach to goals and tasks?
More info on 12WY Here: https://12weekyear.com/ http://www.asianefficiency.com/systems/12-week-year-mistakes-2/ https://thejimedwardsmethod.com/12-week-year/ The second site has a couple quick quotes to share: "The purpose of the 12 week year is to narrow your focus for the 12 weeks down to the 1-3 goals that matter so you can make incredible progress on those things. The biggest mistake I have made is trying to cram too much into the 12 weeks." In some regards, there is nothing special or magical about the 12WY approach, it's mainly a commonsense, explicit, structured goal execution system. If you are familiar with 4DX, The Four Disciplines of Execution, there is a tremendous amount of commonality. To me, 12WY feels like a more structured, clearly time-boxed version of 4DX, with emphasis on *daily* execution, and the assumption that the work in 12WY *is* your "Day Job", where 4DX aims to help part-time strategic process improvements succeed over time, and an assumption that you/your team will only be able to devote about 20% of your time to the "Wildly Important Goals" you come up with as part of 4DX, because the other 80% of your time is working on your "Day Job", i.e., what they call "The Whirlwind". Strangely, the prescriptiveness of the 12WY approach feels liberating to me, because it's very clear on what to do, when, and why. There are also lots of good support materials out there for 12WY, including paid coaching options, as well as assorted online templates. So far I'm feeling like the constraints of 12WY are a natural fit with the flexibility of MLO. I abused the flexibility of MLO with my GTD-based efforts in it, to the point where I captured too much and my MLO outlines became overwhelming, rather than focusing. So I wound up using MLO more for brainstorming and outlining the work, rather than actually guiding my *execution* of the work. That was my personal failing, ADD issues, etc. and probably won't apply to most people here. It's like Dana K. White of ASlobComesClean.com says, "Did you ever notice that most organizing books were written by people who are already organized?" So perhaps it applies to MLO users, "Did you ever notice most people who are highly organized and focused in how they use MLO were already highly organized and focused before they started using MLO?" Anyway, If you’re like me, you want to hit the ground running for 2016 as FAST as possible, and the 12 Week Year... Wait... what the HELL... it's 2018, almost 2019, 2016 is like, so 2-years-ago! Actually, the first sentence was a quote stolen from the JimEdwards website above. I'm just late to the party, as usual. Gives things more time to mature before I stumble across them. I feel like I can use MLO pretty well as my execution system for 12WY, so if it's going well for me I'll come back and share some screen shots of how I implement the 12WY concepts in MLO. So far, I have made each "Week" of the 12-week period a folder underneath the goal heading, with the specific objectives for the week as part of the folder title. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MyLifeOrganized" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/mylifeorganized. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/mylifeorganized/69dc568b-667b-4a8b-8580-bc132a56a175%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
